[comp.lang.scheme] using SCIX

garey@gtm.EBay.Sun.COM (Garey Mills) (06/01/90)

Can anyone help me with a problem I am having using
SCIX? I have something written in Scheme using the 
HWOOPS package and I want to compile it to C using 
the Scheme-to-C compiler. The compiler gives up on
the 'define-class.sc' macro included in the SCIX
package. Am I doing something wrong? Should I be
creating an intermediate file using the define-class
macro (and how do I do that?)? Any help would be
appreciated.

				Garey Mills

johani@mowitz.nada.kth.se (Johan Ihren) (06/01/90)

In <2087@male.EBay.Sun.COM> garey@gtm.EBay.Sun.COM (Garey Mills) writes:

> Can anyone help me with a problem I am having using
> SCIX? I have something written in Scheme using the 
> HWOOPS package and I want to compile it to C using 
> the Scheme-to-C compiler. The compiler gives up on
> the 'define-class.sc' macro included in the SCIX
> package. Am I doing something wrong? 

Hard to say without more information, but it doesn't sound like it.
Strange, though, that the compiler barfs on define-class after having
evaluated it lots of times when compiling the system...

> Should I be
> creating an intermediate file using the define-class
> macro (and how do I do that?)?

If what you mean is "should I compile define-class separately" then
the answer is no, as it is not possible to compile a macro. It is
only possible to compile something that has been expanded by a macro.

> Any help would be appreciated.

Send the files to scix@nada.kth.se and we'll look into it.

PS. SCIX version 0.97 is due before the end of June. It has been
delayed because we've had to concentrate on exams in other subjects
for a while...

Johan Ihren
Dept. of Computer Science,
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Email: johani@nada.kth.se -or- <backbone>!sunic!nada!johani